diff --git a/features/remote-files.xml b/features/remote-files.xml
index 9443fbf469..f5ef108260 100644
--- a/features/remote-files.xml
+++ b/features/remote-files.xml
@@ -1,18 +1,23 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.18 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.19 $ -->
  <chapter id="features.remote-files">
   <title>Using remote files</title>
 
   <para>
-   As long as support for the &quot;URL fopen wrapper&quot; is enabled when
-   you configure PHP (which it is unless you explicitly pass the
-   <option>--disable-url-fopen-wrapper</option> flag to configure (for versions 
-   up to 4.0.3) or set <parameter>allow_url_fopen</parameter> to off in &php.ini; 
-   (for newer versions)),
-   you can use HTTP and FTP URLs with most functions that take a
-   filename as a parameter, including the <function>require</function>
-   and <function>include</function> statements.
+   As long as <parameter>allow_url_fopen</parameter> is enabled in
+   php.ini, you can use HTTP and FTP URLs with most of the functions
+   that take a filename as a parameter.  In addition, URLs can be
+   used with the <function>include</function>,
+   <function>include_once</function>, <function>require</function> and
+   <function>require_once</function> statements.
   </para>
+  <note>
+   <para>
+   In PHP 4.0.3 and older, in order to use URL wrappers, you were required
+   to configure PHP using the configure option
+   <option>--enable-url-fopen-wrapper</option>.
+   </para>
+  </note>
   <para>
    <note>
     <para>
@@ -55,8 +60,13 @@ fclose($file);
    </example>
   </para>
   <para>
-   You can also write to files on an FTP as long you connect as a user
-   with the correct access rights, and the file doesn't exist already.
+   You can also write to files on an FTP server (provided that you
+   have connected as a user with the correct access rights). You
+   can only create new files using this method; if you try to overwrite
+   a file that already exists, the <function>fopen</function> will
+   fail.
+  </para>
+  <para>
    To connect as a user other than 'anonymous', you need to specify
    the username (and possibly password) within the URL, such as
    'ftp://user:password@ftp.example.com/path/to/file'. (You can use the
@@ -85,11 +95,11 @@ fclose ($file);
   <para>
    <note>
     <para>
-     You might get the idea from the example above to use this
-     technique to write to a remote log, but as mentioned above, you
-     can only write to a new file using the URL fopen() wrappers. To
-     do distributed logging like that, you should take a look at
-     <function>syslog</function>.
+     You might get the idea from the example above that you can use
+     this technique to write to a remote log file. Unfortunately
+     that would not work because the <function>fopen</function> call will
+     fail if the remote file already exists. To do distributed logging
+     like that, you should take a look at <function>syslog</function>.
     </para> 
    </note>
   </para>